This paper responds to key aspects of Bill Dixon's article, Understanding 'Pointy Face': What is criminology
for? It suggests that criminology should unambiguously be 'for' social justice in South Africa's transhistoric ...

In 1915 Baba Bapoo, a store assistant in Cape Town, was thrown into a state of great mental and emotional stress when he lost his permit en route to India. This was the only document that could guarantee his re-admission ...

This paper uses Nancy Fraser’s concept of participatory parity to reflect on data gathered by and from third year students in a final year research module in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of ...

This article examines how the phenomenon of passing, or playing white, is portrayed in selected South African texts. The findings of two studies conducted in the Cape Town area highlight the particular historical circumstances ...

This article contributes to pastoral care within communities under transition. It seeks to
contribute to the corpus of literature that relates pastoral care with culture and, particularly,
multicultural contexts. It seeks ...

Now well into his eighties, Gary Snyder continues to pursue lifetime habits of engagement and detachment in which the activities of literary work, spiritual practice, environmental activism, and family life are mutually ...

This article reflects on the findings of the International Men and Gender Equality
survey through the lens of contemporary South African contexts of change. While
huge strides have been made toward gender justice in South ...

Staffriding, or train surfing, involves taking life threatening physical risks by moving around the outside of moving trains. In aiming to better understand this risky practice, this small scale qualitative study used three ...

This study on perceptions of violence was conducted with 56 traditional health practitioners (diviners: amagrirha) in the Helderberg Municipal Area of Cape Town Metro. It forms a subsection of a larger study on African ...

The paper explores the benefits of performative ethnography as a methodological intervention. The intervention discussed in this paper utilizes the persuasive power of aesthetics and performance to attain participation ...

The city as place forms the backdrop to many study abroad experiences.
Our sense of place, however, is often fractured by modern mobilities. As
Sack (1988) notes, we move from place to place so much that places often
begin ...

This paper critically assesses the supposition that the best way to capture the intuition
that the concept of personhood has practical importance is to analyse personhood in
terms of multiple selves. It explores the works ...

The article reports on an investigation of the provision of gay and lesbian literature and of information services to gays and
lesbians in Cape Town’s public libraries. Although by definition public libraries serve all ...

The present article is a plea for mother tongue education dictionary projects in Gabonese lexicography. The latter has been in a fast-developing process for the past twenty years and has experienced quite an important crop ...

Reproductive rights in South Africa continue to be undermined for young women who fall pregnant and become mothers while still at school. Before 1994, exclusionary practices were common and the majority of those who fell ...

Kok Nam began his photographic career at Studio Focus in Lourenço Marques in the 1950s, graduated to the newspaper Notícias and joined Tempo magazine in the early 1970s. Most recently he worked at the journal Savana as a ...

The contributions to the special section in this issue study recent independence celebrations and other national days in South
Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of Congo. They explore the ...

Although set in the 1990s and published in 2002, Alaa
Al Aswany’s novel The Yacoubian Building conveys the
corruption and brutality that led to explosive revolutions in
Egypt from 2011. Moreover, his depiction of ...

Despite Lola Shoneyin’s public condemnation of the impediments to female autonomy, equality, freedom, dignity, and self-realisation inherent in polygamy, the polyvalent nature of her contemporary Nigerian novel, The Secret ...

This paper explores the use of punctuation, capitalisation, linguistic forms and
images in the construction of evaluative discourses in male toilet graffiti at the
University of the Western Cape. Of particular interest ...